Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples
The School–Prison Trust describes interrelated histories, ongoing ideologies, and contemporary expressions of what the authors call the “school–prison trust”: a conquest strategy encompassing the boarding school and juvenile prison models, and deployed in the long war against Native peoples. At its heart, the book is a constellation of stories of Indigenous self-determination in the face of this ongoing conquest.
Following the stories of an incarcerated young man named Jakes, the authors consider features of school–prison relations for young Native people to ask urgent questions about Indigenous sovereignty, conquest, survivance, and refusal.
What People Are Saying
"The book's main strength lies in its attention to flickering yet powerful moments of refusal that reveal the frailty of the school-prison trust." American Indian Quarterly
"The School-Prison Trust offers a complex and compelling examination of colonization via statecraft alongside trustee relationships with Indigenous peoples." Historical Studies in Education
About the Authors
Sabina Vaught is professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh.
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy (Lumbee) is President’s Professor at Arizona State University.
Jeremiah Chin is assistant professor of law at St. Thomas University College of Law.